Swing Time.  Gunga Din.  Woman of the Year.  A Place in the Sun.  Shane.  Giant.  The Diary of Anne Frank.

What do all of these films have in common?  They were directed by George Stevens, one of the great filmmakers of his era and winner of 2 Academy Awards.

George Stevens, Jr. – writer and director of George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey – presents a new 4K restoration of his documentary about his father followed by a conversation with former New York Times film critic Janet Maslin.

George Stevens, Jr. is a director, writer, producer and playwright. He is the founder of the American Film Institute and creator of the Kennedy Center Honors. His awards in-clude fourteen Emmys, eight Writers Guild and two Peabody Awards, the Humanitas Prize and an Honorary Oscar for life-time achievement. He is the author of Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age and the Broadway play Thurgood.  Earlier this year he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest award for a civilian.

Copies of Mr. Stevens’s book My Place in the Sun will be available for sale and signing.

Restoration funding provided by Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz, Martin Scorsese and The Film Foundation.